Month: December 2012

Muslims Have Least Sex Outside Marriage, Study SuggestsMegan Gannon, News EditorDate: 18 October 2012 Time: 12:52 PM ET Of all the world's major religious groups, Muslims are the least likely to have sex outside of marriage, new research found. And as a country's Muslim population grows, the rate of premarital sex declines for all residents, even non-Muslims, according to the study.Researchers analyzed the responses of over 620,000 people (ages 15-59) who were interviewed as part of the Demographic and Health Surveys in 31 mostly developing nations from 2000 to 2008. Most countries included in the sample had either a Muslim or Christian majority, except India and Nepal, which have Hindu majorities, and Cambodia which has a Buddhist majority. (The United States was not included in the study.)They found that, overall, the…

Muslims Have Least Sex Outside Marriage, Study SuggestsMegan Gannon, News EditorDate: 18 October 2012 Time: 12:52 PM ET Of all the world's major religious groups, Muslims are the least likely to have sex outside of marriage, new research found. And as a country's Muslim population grows, the rate of premarital sex declines for all residents, even non-Muslims, according to the study.Researchers analyzed the responses of over 620,000 people (ages 15-59) who were interviewed as part of the Demographic and Health Surveys in 31 mostly developing nations from 2000 to 2008. Most countries included in the sample had either a Muslim or Christian majority, except India and Nepal, which have Hindu majorities, and Cambodia which has a Buddhist majority. (The United States was not included in the study.)They found that, overall, the…

Microsoft to stop Linux, older Windows, from running on Windows 8 PCs | ZDNetSummary: It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that Microsoft is going to try to keep Linux, older versions of Windows, and other operating systems off Windows 8 PCs.Steven J. Vaughan-NicholsBy Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | September 23, 2011 -- 07:55 GMT (00:55 PDT)[The Microsoft Death Star is back in orbit and firing.] Thanks to Mary Jo Foley, we now know that in the name of "security," Microsoft will be trying to use UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to block Linux, older versions of Windows, and other alternative operating systems from booting on Windows 8 PCs. Thanks Microsoft we appreciate it.In a new Microsoft blog, Building Windows 8, by Steven…

Lesson 2: Getting to Know your Development EnvironmentIn the previous lesson, you saw how you can increase productivity in AutoCAD by implementing a plug-in built from a small amount of Visual Basic .NET code. .NET (or the .NET Framework) is a technology created by Microsoft that enables programmers to create and extend software applications. A programmer may use the ,NET Framework to create a new software application from scratch, to implement communication or interoperability between two software applications, or to extend a software application by implementing a plug-in for it (as you are doing here for AutoCAD). If you are interested in learning more, you will find information in the Additional Topics section.You will now look more closely at what happened when you built and executed the code in the previous…